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Check out the latest in our video series on the roles of the municipality in governing the sharing economy. This video explores self-governing, where the city acts as an actor involved in the sharing of idling resources. Watch the latest video here.

In many countries, city governments choose to regulate sharing economy initiatives. Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan shares her research on governance in the sharing economy. In this video, understand the role of regulator. This is the second video in a series of videos about governing the sharing economy. Find out more!

Yuliya Voytenko Palgan presents her research on governance in the sharing economy in a new video series, developed for the forthcoming Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about ‘Sharing Cities’. New videos will be released each week until the Sharing Cities Summit, co-hosted by the IIIEE, on October 10-11. More information can be found on the IIIEE website.

Urban Sharing researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan presented at the International Spring School and International Scientific-Practitioner Conference “European Dimensions of Sustainable Development”, which was held at the National University of Food Technologies in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 23-24 April 2019.

Lucie Zvolska, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont have recently published their new article analysing the pathways sharing organisations take to create new institutions and alter the existing ones.

On 6 February 2019, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan presented in an online webinar on “The Role of City Governments in the Sharing Economy”. She has tested a newly developed framework on the governance mechanisms and roles that cities employ when engaging with the sharing economy with the representatives from the municipalities of Malmö, Gothenburg and Umeå. These cities are members in the Sharing Cities Sweden programme. The framework is developed as part of URBAN SHARING programme and Sharing and the City project.